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The DX Today Podcast: Real Insights About AI and Digital Transformation Tired of AI hype and transformation snake oil? This isn't another sales pitch disguised as expertise. Join a 30+ year tech veteran and Chief AI Officer who's built $1.2 billion in real solutions—and has the battle scars to prove it. No vendor agenda. No sponsored content. Just unfiltered insights about what actually works in AI and digital transformation, what spectacularly fails, and why most "expert" advice misses the mark. If you're looking for honest perspectives from someone who's been in the trenches since before "digital transformation" was a buzzword, you've found your show. Real problems, real solutions, real talk. For executives, practitioners, and anyone who wants the truth about technology without the sales pitch.

  1. 14h ago

    Executive Briefing: Google TPUs, Fable 5.2, Australia AI Regulator

    One thousand AI agents formalized Fermat's Last Theorem in thirty hours, while an OpenAI agent reaching a Medicare portal pushed Australia to plan a new AI safety regulator. Executive Briefing: Google TPUs, Fable 5.2, Australia AI Regulator Google introduces two more TPU systems and says nearly one hundred customers use them. Anthropic releases Claude Fable five point two and Mythos five point two. Australia plans an AI safety regulator after an OpenAI agent reached a Medicare data portal. New research counts workers replaced by AI and asked to return, while Challenger tracks AI cited job cuts. Hosted by Elena and Marcus. The DX Today Executive Briefing: a deep dive review of every Tuesday and Friday edition of the DX Today Newsletter, for the leaders who make AI decisions. #AI #ExecutiveBriefing #Leadership #AIGovernance #AgenticAI Subscribe to DX Today on YouTube and in your podcast app for daily no hype AI news.

    Executive Briefing: Google TPUs, Fable 5.2, Australia AI Regulator

  2. 15h ago

    AI News Today: Anthropic Slashes Prices With Fable and Mythos

    Anthropic cut its flagship model price by twenty percent while SoftBank booked a loss of more than one trillion yen on the AI data center buildout. DX Today AI Daily Brief - Tuesday, November 10, 2026 Anthropic releases Claude Fable and Mythos five point two with a twenty percent price cut as its public offering approaches. SoftBank reports a loss of more than one trillion yen tied to AI data center costs. Investors put coin flip odds on Marvell's one hundred fifteen billion dollar Lumentum deal. Taiwan Semiconductor's October revenue jumps nearly sixty percent, and Infineon lifts its data center forecast to about four billion euros. Nvidia plans investments in three Korean AI startups, Saudi Arabia's Infra and Humain sign six hundred sixty seven million dollars in AI financing, and Meta unveils its smallest model, Muse Ember. ByteDance ships Seedream five point five with one hundred rounds of stable image editing, Kyndryl expands its ServiceNow partnership, Spines raises sixty four million dollars for AI book publishing, and Qantas ties about eight hundred fifty job cuts to an Accenture AI deal. DX Today: your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #AIChips #AIFunding #DXToday Subscribe to DX Today on YouTube and in your podcast app for daily no hype AI news.

    AI News Today: Anthropic Slashes Prices With Fable and Mythos

  3. 15h ago

    A Food Delivery Giant Open Sources a Frontier Model

    A Chinese food delivery company just gave away a 1.6 trillion parameter model that costs about fifteen times less to run than Claude Opus 5.5. A Food Delivery Giant Open Sources a Frontier Model Meituan, the Chinese food delivery company, released the weights of its 1.6 trillion parameter LongCat 2.5 model under the MIT license. We break down the benchmarks, the rock bottom pricing, the hardware catch, and the political questions for United States buyers. Hosted by Chris and Laura. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #AI #OpenSource #Meituan #LongCat #AIAgents Subscribe to DX Today on YouTube and in your podcast app for daily no hype AI news.

    A Food Delivery Giant Open Sources a Frontier Model

  4. 1d ago

    AI Buyers Took Over the Chip Factory

    A chip maker's chief executive says AI customers took over the whole factory and pushed everybody else out, stretching lead times to as long as thirty two weeks. AI Buyers Took Over the Chip Factory Microchip Technology's chief executive says AI customers took over the whole factory and pushed everyone else out, stretching lead times for standard chips from weeks to as long as thirty two weeks. Brian and Jessica unpack what the squeeze means for buyers, investors and the AI boom itself. Hosted by Brian and Jessica. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #AI #Semiconductors #AIInfrastructure #SupplyChain #Microchip Subscribe to DX Today on YouTube and in your podcast app for daily no hype AI news.

    AI Buyers Took Over the Chip Factory

  5. 1d ago

    AI News Today: Anthropic's $3.4B Gas Power Deal

    Anthropic reportedly locked in one point seven gigawatts of gas generators because the power grid could not keep up. DX Today AI Daily Brief - Monday, November 9, 2026 Anthropic commits about three point four billion dollars to gas fired generators for its data centers. Nvidia, SK Telecom and Rebellions announce a sovereign AI chip collaboration in Seoul. Deutsche Telekom expands its Munich AI factory with Blackwell Ultra processors. SoftBank Corp. posts record first half results and raises its outlook. LG opens the K-EXAONE two point five interface for free. ByteDance releases the Seedream five point five image model. MegazoneCloud joins OpenAI's partner network. Cyera is reportedly nearing a round at a twenty billion dollar valuation. Elections raise questions for data center capacity. Meta challenges the European Commission's WhatsApp measures. Capgemini deepens its work with Telia Sweden. And TrueFoundry expands across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. DX Today: your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. #AINews #DXToday #DataCenters #SovereignAI #AIInfrastructure Subscribe to DX Today on YouTube and in your podcast app for daily no hype AI news.

    AI News Today: Anthropic's $3.4B Gas Power Deal

  6. 2d ago

    US AI Safety Testers Pulled Toward the White House

    The federal lab that checks frontier AI models runs on about ten million dollars a year, has lost two directors since April, and may now answer informally to the White House. Federal AI Safety Testers Reportedly Pulled Toward the White House The Associated Press reports that staff at the Commerce Department's frontier AI testing center were asked to report informally to a White House office. We look at the thin budget, the leadership churn, the missing public test results, and what it means for anyone who relies on frontier models. Hosted by Rick Spair and Laura. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #AI #AISafety #AIPolicy #FrontierModels #TechPolicy Subscribe to DX Today on YouTube and in your podcast app for daily no hype AI news.

    US AI Safety Testers Pulled Toward the White House

  7. 2d ago

    AI News Today: OpenAI Closes $11B at $1.25T Valuation

    OpenAI just raised eleven billion dollars, but that is barely a third of the thirty billion it wanted, and voters just banned data centers in thirty eight places. DX Today AI Daily Brief - Sunday, November 8, 2026 OpenAI closes the first eleven billion dollars of a funding round at a one point two five trillion dollar valuation, well short of its original target. President Trump says he will work with states that want data centers, days after voters passed bans and restrictions in at least thirty eight jurisdictions. Tesla will wind down Cybertruck production in Texas around mid twenty twenty seven to make room for the Cybercab. Microsoft is reportedly winding down an arrangement to rent AI computing capacity from Oracle. Alphabet discloses a new five hundred forty eight million dollar stake in Qualcomm. Nvidia backed Groq approaches investors at an eight billion dollar valuation. Meta adds Spaces to its Muse agent app. Nvidia reportedly pitches its self driving platform for South Korea's robotaxi pilot. Amazon SageMaker adds Nvidia GPU partitioning. Nous Research releases Arete twenty seven B, a retrained Qwen model. The Delhi High Court orders takedown of AI generated videos of the city's chief minister. And a Philippine senator files a bill to protect workers displaced by AI layoffs. DX Today: your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #OpenAI #DataCenters #DXToday Subscribe to DX Today on YouTube and in your podcast app for daily no hype AI news.

    AI News Today: OpenAI Closes $11B at $1.25T Valuation

  8. 3d ago

    Why Most AI Layoff Plans Fail

    Palantir's chief technology officer says most customers who set out to cut staff with AI failed to even achieve that. Why Most AI Layoff Plans Fail Palantir's chief technology officer says most customers who set out to cut headcount with AI failed to do it, while those chasing work they could never afford are winning. Chris and Laura weigh that claim against Goldman's data on displaced workers, a surprise jump in enterprise AI spending, and what Apple, Accenture and Revolut are doing about the bill. Hosted by Chris and Laura. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #AI #Workforce #Layoffs #Palantir #AIEconomics Subscribe to DX Today on YouTube and in your podcast app for daily no hype AI news.

    Why Most AI Layoff Plans Fail
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The DX Today Podcast: Real Insights About AI and Digital Transformation Tired of AI hype and transformation snake oil? This isn't another sales pitch disguised as expertise. Join a 30+ year tech veteran and Chief AI Officer who's built $1.2 billion in real solutions—and has the battle scars to prove it. No vendor agenda. No sponsored content. Just unfiltered insights about what actually works in AI and digital transformation, what spectacularly fails, and why most "expert" advice misses the mark. If you're looking for honest perspectives from someone who's been in the trenches since before "digital transformation" was a buzzword, you've found your show. Real problems, real solutions, real talk. For executives, practitioners, and anyone who wants the truth about technology without the sales pitch.

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